The city of Alexandria was indeed founded by Alexander the Great in 332 BC. He had conquered Egypt and constructed a capital city along the coast. It was the first egyptian city built on the Greek model, with grid-like streets
This is one of the oddest monuments in Alexandria, it looks completely out of place — just a single granite column, standing on a hill, for no apparent reason. It has been called “An imposing by ungraceful object”, and it really is
In the same hillside where the Roman Amphitheater has been excavated. an ongoing dig is revealing a Roman street — residential areas, shops. pavements, and baths from the third century BCE
One of the most interesting things about Alexandria, I think, is that there is an entire, older Roman city beneath the modern one. In the few places they have dug down they have revealed Roman roads, baths, houses, streets and theatres.
In the middle of Alexandra is an unassuming stone building, almost covered in grass — beneath which is the huge underground necropolis of the Catacomb of Shouqafa.
Alexandria was the site of the ancient Mousieon, a temple of the muses, which was the center of learning and arts. Under Ptolemy I Soter, the schools here were built, and under his son, Ptolemy II, the great library was built.
